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2/2: #MARS: Insight and the Marsquakes. Ken Croswell, Proceeding of the National Academy of Science.

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

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2/2: #MARS: Insight and the Marsquakes. Ken Croswell, Proceeding of the National Academy of Science.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400778121
2006 Spirit on Mars

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0:00.0

Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

0:04.0

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

0:09.1

tropics.

0:10.1

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

0:13.4

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

0:18.0

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

0:23.0

Wish you were here.

0:24.0

Follow the price of the National Academy of Sciences

0:41.0

about the NASA probe inside and its search for information about the planet

0:47.7

Mars. In the course of its time there was a good surprise and a bad surprise.

0:52.4

I'm following Ken's

0:53.4

reporting from one of the planetary seismologists at the

0:58.4

as a Paris University, the city of Paris University.

1:03.0

The good surprise was, I will start with, because I always start with good news, that there's a region

1:09.0

that's most active of the hemisphere in which inside sits.

1:13.0

Did we know that before, Ken, that there would be a region that's more active than any other?

1:18.0

No, no, we didn't know anything about Quakes on Mars.

1:21.0

In fact, we didn't even know with 100% assurance

1:24.1

that there were Quicks on Mars prior to the Insight mission.

1:28.0

So it was just luck that one of the most active regions on Mars inside happened to land fairly close to.

1:36.4

This region is called Surberus Fosse.

1:38.4

It's east of the Lander, but it's not that far east. And as a result, the spacecraft was able to detect a lot of quakes

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